1. John Bardon was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1988 for Kiss Me, Kate, sharing the award with co-star Emil Wolk.
18 Facts About John Bardon
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John Bardon was best known for playing the patriarch of the Branning family, Jim Branning, in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, for 15 years from 1996 to 2011.
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John Bardon's early acting experience was with a group called The Taverners, who played in pubs.
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John Bardon then appeared in productions by the Civil Service drama group, which toured theatres in Germany and Austria.
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John Bardon became a professional actor in 1970 at the age of 31, joining a repertory company in Exeter.
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John Bardon filmed his final scenes for EastEnders in March 2011 after years of poor health.
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John Bardon was a regular in Rumpole of the Bailey, as a member of the "clan Timson, a family of South London villains", as described by Rumpole.
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John Bardon starred in the British police drama The Sweeney, in which he played villain Doc Boyd in the episode "Faces", first broadcast on Monday 8 September 1975.
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John Bardon was a guest star in two episodes of Coronation Street in the early 1990s.
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John Bardon appeared as the father of Daryl Stubbs in Birds of a Feather, and played an asylum warden in the 1996 TV adaptation of Gulliver's Travels.
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John Bardon appeared on the BBC show Just the Two of Us.
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John Bardon's singing partner was Jocelyn Brown and the pair finished fourth.
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John Bardon made an appearance in the sitcom Desmond's, in a two part episode of the second series in which he played a police officer.
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John Bardon has appeared in Birds of a Feather as the father of Daryl Stubbs.
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John Bardon was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2003 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel on the EastEnders set.
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On 14 June 2007, John Bardon was admitted to hospital after suffering a major stroke at home.
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On 8 August 2008, John Bardon was rushed to hospital with a second suspected stroke.
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John Bardon returned to work at EastEnders full-time in June 2009 and was on screen from 20 August 2009.